Codice albumGBB-F-005903

Codice inventarioGBB-F-005903-0000

1883, NEW YORK, USA : The italian ballerina CARLOTTA BRIANZA (1867 1930), of LA SCALA theatre of Milano, during a tourné in USA like protagonist of the Luigi Manzotti 's " Balletto Excelsior ". Thanks to her popularity there, in 1889 she was hired by the Mariinsky Theatre where she danced with Enrico Cecchetti in Lev Ivanov 's " The Tulip of Haarlem ", by composer Boris Fitinhof-Schell, in 1889. On 15 January 1890, she danced Aurora in the premiere of Marius Petipa 's " Sleeping Beauty " by music composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She continued her dancing career in Vienna, Italy, Paris and London before returning to Paris where she taught until she retired. In 1921, Sergei Diaghilev brought her out of retirement to dance in "The Sleeping Beauty ". She died in Paris in 1930.

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